The situation will improve once they release a stable 1.0 version.
Until then, use mise, nix, docker, or something similar. (You should be doing this anyway for projects in all languages if you care about them building on anyone's machine other than your own.)
Very brief. I'm not sure what this adds over reading the language documentation (which itself is not great). As it's entirely organized by language features it doesn't really talk about any larger scale design decisions, which is where I think language proficiency is really found.
I just looked this up yesterday so sharing some more up-to-date resources for those interested in Zig:
- Learning Zig by Karl Seguin: https://www.openmymind.net/learning_zig/
- https://zig.guide/
- Free project-based online book Introduction to Zig by Pedro Park: https://pedropark99.github.io/zig-book.
- Ziglings, almost working programs you need to fix: https://codeberg.org/ziglings/exercises
Also build system and c interop is outdated
I like Zig but stopped learning it when I realized that all project based on it requires a specific version of the compiler to build.
The situation will improve once they release a stable 1.0 version.
Until then, use mise, nix, docker, or something similar. (You should be doing this anyway for projects in all languages if you care about them building on anyone's machine other than your own.)
I would be interested to learn why that is a problem. As a new Rust learner, I am curious.
It might not be the version you have installed, or the same version as another project you want to glue together into a single application.
Very brief. I'm not sure what this adds over reading the language documentation (which itself is not great). As it's entirely organized by language features it doesn't really talk about any larger scale design decisions, which is where I think language proficiency is really found.
I'm missing the concurrency model.
for those new, start with why: https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp
Is this much different than ziglings?
This is essentially just a textbook of zig examples. Ziglings is an interactive exercise
lots of people into zig this morning apparently!
I am really looking into zig now because founder seems like a cool dude.
Looking for a resource (MCP, CLI, Skill, ...) that would improve Zig support in LLMs.
Currently, doing something with Zig as a target language would spend many more tokens and produce subpar results.
If you worked through this and learnt to use zig, your token usage would be even lower!
Don't be ridiculous. Learning? That's for the dinosaurs. Just throw an llm at the problem!